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Papyrus 503
- Record Id:
- 040-002104885
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001f4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468801.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 503
- Title:
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Fragments of Letters (P.Petrie Kleon 8, P.Petr. I 30(1), P.Petr. III 42h(4), P.Lond. III 503a descr., TM 7670; P.Petr. I 30(2), P.Lond. III 503b descr., TM 78714; P.Petr. I 30(3), P.Lond. III 503c descr., TM 78715)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Petrie Kleon 8, P.Petr. I 30(1), P.Petr. III 42h(4), P.Lond. III 503a, TM 7670): Letter of Philonides to his father Cleon on private matters. Philonides will send some linen cloths as soon as he receives them, and informs Cleon that Satyrus is in Memphis, ill.
Lower left papyrus (B) (P.Petr. I 30(2), P.Lond. III 503b, TM 78714): Fragment of a letter, the details being lost.
Lower right papyrus (C) (P.Petr. I 30(3), P.Lond. III 503c, TM 78715): Fragment of a letter, mentioning Canopus; the details are lost.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104885 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 503 : Fragments of Letters (P.Petrie Kleon 8, P.Petr. I 30(1), P.Petr. III 42h(4), P.Lond. III 503a descr., TM 7670; P.Petr. I 30(2),… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1099]/040-002104885
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Three papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage, written on one side and mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): mutilated at the sides; 7 lines written on the front along the fibres; the upper and lower margins measure 20 mm.
Lower left papyrus (B): Left portion of a dark-brown papyrus sheet, with surface damage and plaster residue; the front bears the beginnings of 6 lines, written along the fibres.
Lower right papyrus (C): Fragment of a papyrus sheet, broken off at all sides, with traces of plaster and some surface damage. Portions of 8 lines run along the fibres on the front. There is a sheet-join.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 105 x 240 mm; B: 100 x 92 mm; C: 113 x 127 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 305 x 275 mm.
Script: A: Thin, regular upright hand, with right-pointing serifs and occasional ligatures. Same hand as P.Petrie Kleon 7, 9, 10, 11 and 15. B-C: Broad and large upright hands; C exhibits occasional serifs.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: A: Alexandria, Egypt. B-C: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 486-603 by Henry Martyn Kennard (b. 1833, d. 1911) in May 1895. The papyri had been extracted from mummy cartonnages found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 503a descr.
P.Lond. III 503b descr.
P.Lond. III 503c descr.
P.Petr. I 30(1)
P.Petr. I 30(2)
P.Petr. I 30(3)
P.Petr. III 42h(4)
P.Petrie Kleon 8 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), p. 503.
A
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 79-80, no. 30(1), with pl. xxx.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 113, no. 42h(4).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 503a descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
S. Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner 1911), no. 1.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 347.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 106.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 159.
W. Clarysse, ‘Linguistic diversity in the archive of the engineers Kleon and Theodoros’, in T. V. Evans, D. D. Obbink (eds.), The Language of the Papyri (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2010), pp. 35-50.
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 38-39, no. 8.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), pp. 129, 197.
B
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 79-80, no. 30(2), with pl. xxx.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 503b descr.
C
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 79-80, no. 30(3), with pl. xxx.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 503c descr.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)